CS 5.5. Advanced actions enable a button that jumps to slide... when revisited, button only continue

Essentially, I have a slide with six buttons on it.... five that navigate to other pages as an interaction, and a continue button that breaks the loop and moves the user forward in the lesson. I have an advanced action that shows the continue button after all other buttons have been used. The problem:
When a user navigates back to this interaction hub, the enabled continue button doesn't jump to the proper slide... it slowly just moves into a slide in the loop.
Any idea why a continue button would no longer jump to the proper page after it has been activated?

Hi there
Actually I do believe there is a way to make the behavior what you want. But I'll address your issue for making things known to Adobe first. Adobe has something called the "Wish Form/Bug Reporting Form" that they monitor. So you use that. (Link to that is in my sig line)
As for the button issue, you can accomplish it using Advanced Actions. What you need to do is to manipulate the Playhead to keep it paused. One way is by configuring the variable rdcmndGotoFrame with the value rdinfoCurrentFrame. Sometimes this works to just keep the playhead paused. Other times I've tried to do it with some success by repositioning the playhead farther upstream and allowing it to "float" back to the pause point of the object. And to do this you use the variable rdcmndGotoFrameAndResume and assigning it the frame number earlier in time. Of course, to do this you must first calculate the frame number to position at. I normally did this by inserting a Text Caption configured to present the rdinfoCurrentFrame variable and manipulating the pause points using a Click Box object to arrive at the desired value.
Cheers... Rick
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I'll see if I can explain it better.
Slide 1 starts and plays text and graphics. It runs for 15 seconds. After 15 seconds, my Back and Next buttons appear. The user can then proceed to Slide 2.
Slide 2 starts and plays text and graphics. It runs for 20 seconds. After 20 seconds, my Back and Next buttons appear.
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Basically this....if a user has been through a slide before, I don't want them to have to watch it all over again.

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